PSYCHOHISTORICAL CRISIS, my new book, is due to be
published by Tor Books in November 2001, an expansion on the ideas
presented in Historical Crisis from Gregory Benford's collection of novellas Far
Futures from Tor. What happens when an elite group of psychohistorians achieves their
millennial long ambition to rule the Galaxy? Can they keep the secrets of their prediction
formulae?

I will soon be adding information to my website about
Geta, the world of Courtship Rite, including maps by Karen Seay that were not
included in the original editions of the book, also reviews &
discussions, and a glossary. Perhaps I will include chapters from The Finger Pointing
Solward, the original unpublished novel that takes place about 500 years after Courtship Rite. A piece from this novel appeared as The
Cauldron in Northern Stars from Tor Books 1994. Perhaps info on
other upcoming novels in the series will appear here. In production at the moment is God
Ship's Night. The only previously published story in the Courtship Rite world
is Shipwright which appeared in the April 1978 issue of Analog, and in The Best
Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1; Terry Carr, ed, Del Rey, 1979 (preferred
edition), and in Imperial Stars Vol. 2, Republic and Empire; Jerry Pournelle, ed, Baen
Books, 1987.

I will be including addenda to my novel The Moon Goddess and the Son,
Baen 1986, 1987. The paperback version, 1987, left out, by accident, the dedication to
Roger Arnold and the introductory Time Patrol Warning. I will also include the
background article on the leoport I did with Roger Arnold, The Spaceport, Analog
Nov & Dec 1979..

I will be including the research material I used to write the stories The
Survivor and The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentinein Larry Niven's
"Man-Kzin War" series from Baen Books, including my best effort at a Known Space
Timeline.

I will eventually add to this site the article Atomic Rockets from
Analog, Dec 1978 (on the Los Alamos Dumbo project circa late 50s, early 60s) and the
supplementary paper I sent to interested readers. I may also include Dumbo engine's
history. Perhaps I will include some updated data -- modern methods of cheaply extracting
isotopes have radically changed the constraints on reactor design. Isotopes of the same
element vary widely in their neutron cross-sections.

Since 1999 I have been researching ancient measures, and have found
startling validation of most of the work done by that amazing metrologist, Livio Catullo
Stecchini (whose work I found at http://www.interpres.cz and in Peter Tompkins book Secrets
of the Great Pyramid. ) I was trained as a mathematician and patterns emerged from
Stecchini's material that Stecchini himself was unaware of, indicating exactly how the
ancient metrologists calibrated their measures -- which completely dispels old myths about
where the old measures came from. You can bet your ass that they didn't use no king's foot
or elbow length! I will be disclosing full details here and link this site with various
other internet sites on ancient measures that I have found relevant. Some of this work
crept into my new novel Psychohistorical Crisis and you will find in it an
appendix which gives a quick overview of ancient metrics and measures.

I have always been interested in "time's arrow" and will
include my article from the Feb 1995 Analog, The Janus Headed Arrow of Time. I hope
to collect, at my site, from various mathematical and physics friends, an argument that
demonstrates that quantum mechanics, unlike general relativity, cannot distinguish between
a system in which time is traveling "forward" and a system in which time is
traveling "backwards." We cannot use entropy as a decision procedure because
both classical and quantum mechanics allows entropy to increase or decrease while time
advances -- of course, the probability that entropy is increasing is much higher
than the probability that entropy is decreasing. There is no evidence whatsoever
that this probability regime ischanged when we move backwards in time, i.e. it is still
highly probable that entropy is increasing when we reverse the direction of time in our
equations. Nobody has been able to prove otherwise.

I will eventually be including in this site odd assorted papers --
biographical notes, pictures, letters, old stories (say my "prize" winning story
from High School, and maybe a few bad stories rejected by John W. Campbell while I was
learning to write), old articles like The Right To Breed from Astounding April
1955, in which I predicted to everyone's horror that the earth's population in 2000 AD
would be six billion. I am beginning to include some of the 1000 word pieces I did for the
McGill student paper (The McGill Daily) in the 50s and 60s and 70s when I was a radical
rabble rouser. (When people asked me whether I was "right" or "left" I
always said "up," a political position I maintain to this day.)

I will try to keep posted here the science-fiction cons which I intend
to attend.